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punishment
noun as in penalty
Strongest matches
abuse, beating, discipline, forfeiture, retribution, sanction, suffering, torture, trial
Strong matches
amercement, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, forfeit, gallows, infliction, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, purgatory, reparation, rod, sequestration, unhappiness, victimization
Weak matches
disciplinary action, hard work, punitive measures, rough treatment, short shrift, what for
Example Sentences
The standard punishment for a red card for violent conduct is a three-match ban, but if the FA thinks that a dismissal offence is "truly exceptional" it can seek to increase the punishment.
"I just feel like maybe my punishment was more than it needed to be," she says.
The punishment, as your brother perhaps sees it, is taking the case, not necessarily the outcome.
"They punished ordinary people. This is collective punishment."
The gifted and logorrheic podcaster has lately asserted an argument on “collective punishment” and “identity” that sounds, at first, vaguely plausible.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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